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Robin McAlpine: Stop Feigning Confusion at Public Ownership; it’s not Complicated

November 23, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

When one reads an article like this, it becomes painfully clear how bankrupt Europe’s political class is. While politicians pretend they are the high priests of complicated truths, which we daily realise are lies, we […]

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Deregulation

Guy Standing – Rentier Capitalism is Breeding Neo-Fascism

November 14, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Faced with a crisis of awesome proportions, we must develop a strategy for re-embedding the economy in society. Guy Standing is Professorial Research Associate, SOAS University of London, Fellow of the UK Academy of Social […]

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Guy Standing – Sharing Public Wealth: Why We Need a Charter of the Commons

September 25, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Guy Standing argues that we need a progressive charter to recover and revive our commons – including natural resources and social amenities – that are currently being privatised and exploited for commercial incursions. Guy Standing […]

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Milan Babic – Reclaiming the Commons Through State Ownership? Maybe Not

July 30, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Transnational state capital can be just as harmful as its private counterparts. We need local, democratic and sustainable alternatives. Milan Babic is a PhD candidate at the Corpnet research group at the University of Amsterdam. […]

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Renegade Inc: Guy Standing – Rentier Britain, All the rent goes to the 1%

July 15, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

There are three fundamental issues that lie at the heart of our current economic malaise: the first is unearned income and wealth from land rent, the second is the creation of money by privately owned […]

Austerity

The European Illusion – Why We Need New Strategies Towards the EU and Beyond by Attac Austria

January 7, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Mathew D. Rose It takes courage these days to write a book critical of the EU, especially from a leftist perspective: to do so in Austria even more so. Austria, like Germany, […]

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EU politics

Ghent University: ‘We are transforming our university into a place where talent once again feels valued and nurtured’

January 7, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

“A university is above all a place where everything can be questioned. Where opinions, procedures and habits are challenged. Where there is no place for rigidity.” Read here

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Economics

Guy Standing – How the precariat – and UBI – can stop neoliberalism from destroying the planet

November 2, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Taxes on exploiting the commons – both exhaustible and non-exhaustible resources – could be used to give people basic financial security. Dr Guy Standing is Professorial Research Associate, SOAS University of London, Fellow of the […]

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Deregulation

Lucas S. Ferro, Sergi Cutillas , Toni Pérez – The taxi strike in Barcelona: the right to work versus the fake sharing economy

August 2, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Taxi drivers in Madrid and Barcelona temporarily terminated their strike Wednesday night. The decision was made following an emergency meeting between national and regional authorities concerning Über and Cabify, which the taxi sectors views as […]

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George Monbiot – How to really take back control

April 5, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

A wide ranging lecture by George Monbiot that ticks almost all boxes.

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EU politics

Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

August 10, 2025 0

Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

July 2, 2025 0

Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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